Ira Shor is professor of English at the College of Staten Island. His books include Critical Teaching and Everyday Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 3rd Printing, 1987), Culture Wars: School and Society in the Conservative Restoration, 1969-1984 (New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul/Methuen, 1986), Freire for the Classroom: a source book for liberatory teaching/ edited by Ira Shor; afterword by Paulo Freire (Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook Publishers,1987). The manuscript published here.is a slightly revised version of Ira Shor’s “INTRODUCTION” to the first of three volumes he co-edited with Caroline Pari in tribute to the life and work of Paulo Freire: Critical Literacy in Action, Heinemann Press, 1999).

Pablo Navarro-Rivera is Assistant Professor of the School of Undergraduate Studies/Adult Baccalaureate College at Lesley College. His primary area of research is history of higher education. His book Universidad de Puerto Rico: De control político a crisis permanente, 1903-1952 will be published in 2000.

Solange Lira is Associate Professor of Education and Director of the Center for Academic Achievement at Lesley College. Her primary research interest is second language acquisition.

Maria de Lourdes Serpa is Associate Professor of Education and Co-Director of the Master Degree Program in Bilingual Education at Lesley College. She specializes in Special Education and Bilingual Education.

William Stokes is Professor of Education at Lesley College. His primary academic research area is Literacy and is Co-Director of the Lesley College Literacy Institute.

Barton Kunstler is Associate Professor of Management and Director of the General Education Program of the School of Management at Lesley College.

Anne Pluto is Associate Professor of Theater and Humanities of the School of Undergraduate Studies/Women’s College at Lesley College.